「로미오와 줄리엣」: 기쁨의 속성과 그 인과관계

Abstract

Miye KimRomeo and Juliet is a play about the romantic death of 'a pair of star-cross'd lovers'. As Charles William argues that Shakespeare enjoys very luxurious grief in this play, we can find here, a pair of lovers overcome by their joyful exuberance falling into care and grief. These negative feeling leads them to death in the end. They struggle to be together and lament the loss of the other's presence. When we get frustrated at the failure of getting the stuff we eagerly desire, we come to realize the sense of fate. In the play, the more Romeo and Juliet try to help the things that they cannot help, the more they come to confusion, because they would not see in themselves the habit of causing 'love-devouring death' the very moment of joy called love. The more they feel joy and delight to each other, the more strongly they feel the sense of fate. This essay tries to show that our future opens depending on how we react to the situation the moment we meet with it. Romeo and Juliet's despair reminds us of the death-oriented omen consistently haunted in their love and their rhetoric rich with the imagination of death. Their death is caused by their habit of action when they seek the agony felt by imagining the absence of the other even without knowing. The didactic phrase, "the sweetest honey is loathsome in his own deliciousness' by Friar Lawrence tells the nature of the human that cannot but fall when they are not able to taste delight and joy fully. And the love story of Romeo and Juliet best illustrates the rule of such nature.